[spectre] read_me 1.2 program

[Olga Goriunova]

International Software Art Festival read_me 1.2
software art / software art games
http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/

PROGRAM

May 18-19. Moscow, DOM Cultural Center
Bolshoy Ovchinnikovsky per. 24-4 (nearest metro station: Novokuznetskaya). 
Tel. 953 7236, 953 7242

May 18, Saturday

16.00 Welcome.
Mikhail Shvydkoy, Minister of Culture.

16.15 Festival opening. Introduction lecture "How Artistic Software Will Save the World" by Olga Goriunova (media researcher, Russia) and Alexei Shulgin (media artist, Russia)

17.00 Presentation of the read_me 1.2 finalists' works.

18.00 "Pop Soft"
Show/presentations:
"bOtimatiOn" by UberGeek (Internet performance), "FULL",  "the gravity code" "retroYou trn nostalgia" and more by RetroYou (modified computer games).

20.00 "VinylVideo(TM)" Gebhard Sengmueller + Martin Diamant, Austria

21.00 Concert.
Retro Sex Galaxy (electronic noise music, Poland).

386 DX (cyberpunk-rock, Russia).


May 19, Sunday

16.00 Show-instrumentarium
(Dj & Vj tools, submitted to read_me 1.2).

17.00 "ASCII TV Theatre". Presentation of an open source installation.

17.30 Lecture: "Software Art. Language. Writing" by Florian Cramer (lecturer in Comparative Literature at Freie Universitaet Berlin. He is also a programmer and writer on digital culture).

18.30 Panel: "Media Active Element" with RTMark (anti-corporate corporation, USA-Europe) and Cue P. Doll (digital artist and programmer, USA). 

19.30 Award ceremony and presentation of the winners' works.

21.00 Concert. 
Game Boyzz Orchestra (electronic minimalism, Poland).

MicroMusic (low-tech music for high-tech people, Switzerland).


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read_me 1.2 explores the meanings of "program," "programming," "media space," and other poorly understood concepts. What are new media art strategies? What does Open Source do? Work gets made: how?

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Organized by: State Center for Museums and Exhibitions "ROSIZO", - 
Media Art Center "Macros-Center".
http://www.macros-center.ru/
"Macros-center" was founded in autumn of the year 2001 in Moscow under State Center for Museums and Exhibitions "ROSIZO". It is an initiative intended to react to interesting and nontraditional phenomena in the sphere of media-art, in the area of intersection of arts, culture and new technologies. "Macros-center" is focused on art adequate to information society and new world order, on artistic and theoretic interpretation of the new reality. The activity of Media-art-center is directed toward creating the field of the working ideas on actual media-art, toward stimulating interest in new artistic strategies and projects, toward organizing space capable of supporting and initiating different artistic and critical media-activities.

Supported by:
Austrian Cultural Forum (Moscow), Embassy of Switzerland in Moscow, Pro Helvetia, DOM Cultural Center.